Legal Cheek report that the senior judiciary and over 800 legal figures have politely read the riot act to Johnson & Patel and quite rightly so.
Read the report at https://www.legalcheek.com/2020/10/trio-of-ex-supreme-court-justices-join-800-legal-figures-in-call-for-johnson-and-patel-to-end-lawyer-hostility/
Here’s the open letter published over the weekend
Letter protesting attacks on lawyers
The undersigned are practising barristers (some working for central and local government), solicitors, legal academics and retired judges.
We are all deeply concerned at recent attacks, made by the Home Secretary and echoed by the Prime Minister, on lawyers seeking to hold the government to the law.
Such attacks endanger not only the personal safety of lawyers and others working for the justice system, as has recently been vividly seen; they undermine the rule of law which ministers and lawyers alike are duty bound to uphold.
We invite both the Home Secretary and the Prime Minister to behave honourably by apologising for their display of hostility, and to refrain from such attacks in the future.
All signatures are given in a personal capacity.
805 signatories comprising:
14 Retired Members of the Judiciary
The Rt. Hon. Lord Collins of Mapesbury
The Rt. Hon. Lord Dyson
The Rt. Hon. Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
Professor John Dugard SC
The Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Buxton
The Rt. Hon. Sir Anthony Hooper PC
The Rt. Hon. Sir David Keene
The Rt. Hon. Sir Alan Moses
The Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Sedley
The Hon. Sir Nicholas Blake
The Hon. Sir Robert Owen
The Hon. Sir Nick Stadlen
Catriona Jarvis
Pat Monro
85 Queen’s Counsel
Theodore Huckle QC
Lord Macdonald of River Glaven Kt QC
Helen Mountfield QC
Dinah Rose QC
Alex Bailin QC
Henry Blaxland QC
John Bowers QC
Clodagh Bradley QC
Lord Brennan QC
Kirsty Brimelow QC
Tim Buley QC
Brenda Campbell QC
Monica Carss-Frisk QC
Peter Carter QC
Ben Cooper QC
Chris Daw QC
John de Waal QC
Professor Jo Delahunty QC
Joel Donovan QC
David Forsdick QC
Isabella Forshall QC
Laurie Fransman QC
Mark George QC
Andrew Hall QC
Stephanie Harrison QC
Lord Hendy QC
Richard Hermer QC
Tom Hickman QC
Anthony Hudson QC
Raza Husain QC
Christopher Johnston QC
Schona Jolly QC
Sean Jones QC
Wayne Jordash QC
Phillippa Kaufmann QC
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
Brian Kennelly QC
Dan Kolinsky QC
Judy Khan QC
Charlotte Kilroy QC
Neil King QC
P J Kirby QC
Samantha Knights QC
James Laddie QC
Samantha Leek QC
Simon Malynicz QC
Michael Mansfield QC
Aileen McColgan QC
Rajiv Menon QC
Anthony Metzer QC
Amanda Meusz
Gavin Millar QC
Tim Moloney QC
Karon Monaghan QC
Keir Monteith QC
Sonali Naik QC
Patrick O’Connor QC
Tim Owen QC
Ian Peddie QC
Tony Peto QC
Meredith Pickford QC
Bernard Richmond QC
Daphne Romney QC
Christopher Sallon QC
Philippe Sands QC
Fiona Scolding QC
Robert Seabrook QC
Stephen Simblet QC
Jessica Simor QC
Sam Stein QC
Brie Stevens-Hoare QC
Professor Leslie Thomas QC
Rhodri Thompson QC
Hugh Tomlinson QC
Rebecca Trowler QC
John de Waal QC
Pete Weatherby QC
Aswini Weereratne QC
Tom Weisselberg QC
John Whitting QC
Marc Willers QC
Ian Wise QC
David Wolfe QC
James Wood QC
Richard Wright QC
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Fahad Ansari
Jane Elizabeth Armitage
Ahmed Aydeed
Smita Bajaria
Tim Barnden
Diana Baxter
Jamie Beagent
Raju Bhatt
Steven Bird
Ruth Bundey
Chris Callender
Jules Carey
Daniel Carey
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Julian Coningham
Matthew Davies
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Ed Smyth
Alison Stanley
Joanna Thomson
Anna-Louise Thwaites
Chris Topping
Merry Varney
Anita Vasisht
Susan Willman
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Professor Paul Craig
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Professor Sir Roy Goode CBE QC
Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Professor Tanya Aplin
Professor Lionel Bently
Dr Chaloka Beyani
Professor Rodney Brazier
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Martha Spurrier
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